Generations of Basques in New York have vibrantly exercised their culture, language, values, and traditions, transmitting to their children a robust sense of ethnic identity. In today€™s world of globalization it is often assumed that particular communities are disappearing as a consequence of the factors of homogenization. However, the Basques have proved this false. Depicting Basque mutual aid societies, language courses, musical and dance troupes, cuisine classes, community activities, sport, political involvement, and ties to homeland institutions are just a few of the ingredients which mix to compose the chapters of this work. Readers will learn about the history and reasons why Basques left the Pyrenees of northern Spain and southern France from the personal experiences of political and economic exiles€™ oral histories. Original archival research allows us to discover the features of the early 1900s Centro Vasco-Americano, the Basque Government-in-exile Delegation in New

The Basques Of New York: A Cosmopolitan Experience (Diaspora and Migration Studies)

History

Totoricaguena, Gloria

Totoricaguena

Americas

Center for Basque Studies

<p>What is identity and how is it constructed? How and why are Basque transnational identities maintained in populations of their diaspora--now in more than twenty countries? Combining theories from sociology, political science, history, and anthropology, this book analyzes the specifics of Basque migrations, cultural representations, diasporic politics, and ethnonationalism.</p>

Basque Diaspora: Migration and Transnational Identity (Basque Textbooks)

Europe

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